Letters from Baghdad Film Screening

13 September '17 at 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Join us for a special fundraising screening of Letters from Baghdad.

Letters from Baghdad, a documentary film directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum tells the extraordinary and dramatic story of Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day. She shaped the destiny of Iraq after World War I in ways that still reverberate today. More influential than her friend and colleague Lawrence of Arabia, why has she been written out of the history she helped make?

All proceeds of this event will support our highly successful Visiting Iraqi Scholars programme that fosters scholarly exchange between Iraq and the rest of the world. For more information on our Visiting Iraqi Scholars programme please visit our website: http://www.bisi.ac.uk/content/visiting-iraqi-scholarships